(Pics from WWE.com)
~The show starts with Kane squashing Elijah Burke in a match.
-It is announced that ECW Champion, Chavo Guerrero, will face Colin Delaney in a non-title match. If Delaney beats Chavo, he’ll get an official ECW contract.
-Kofi Kingston beats James Curtis
-CM Punk, Jesse & Festus defeat Shelton Benjamin and WWE Tag Team Champions, The Miz & John Morrison.
-Chavo Guerrero just ruins everything and beats Colin Delaney, ensuring that Delaney doesn’t get a WWE contract.
It has taken a while, but the Festus gimmick (where he acts brain dead before and after a bell rings but is a complete monster in between) is starting to grow on me.
Shelton Benjamin’s hair was looking very…blonde last night.
It’s good that Kofi Kingston is racking up the wins but I don’t see it going anywhere. He’s not going to win the ECW title, he doesn’t seem to have a feud on the horizon with anyone and he even seems to be leaving Kelly Kelly alone after the “great” pickup line a while back. Hopefully, he gets more to do soon because I think he’s a pretty good talent that shouldn’t be wasted.
I think the WWE has done a phenomenal job thus far building up the Big Show/Floyd Mayweather match at Wrestlemania 24. Recently, two features were done profiling the two opponents outside of the ring ala HBO’s 24/7 series. I, as well as the rest of the world, still have NO CLUE what kind of match Show and Mayweather are going to have (wrestling, boxing, sumo, arm-wrestling?) but the interest is definitely there and I’m looking forward to it.
Wow, I really thought Delaney was gonna get the win over Chavo. But it’s alright, chances are he’ll end up on my TV some way, some how in the future.
Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight
~March is Women’s History Month, so I decided to focus this week’s Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight on one of the widely regarded female wrestlers of all time.
Trish Stratus
The Canadian-born Trish Stratus began her career in pro wrestling in the WWE (then WWF) in early 2000 as a valet (a female performer/wrestler that escorts a male wrestler or wrestlers to the ring. They stay outside the ring for the majority of the match looking pretty.) for a tag team called T&A (the name stood for the two guys in the team named Test and Albert, but I guess it could have stood for other things as well *coughcough*).
Even when the team eventually split later that year, Stratus, a former fitness model, still remained mainly as just eyecandy.
A year later, Stratus stepped out of her role as a valet and got into the ring, proving that she was more than a pretty face. In November of 2001, Trish won the Women's Title for the first time.
She would go on to win the same title another six times, a WWE record, and retire from pro wrestling in September 2006.
In all my years as a wrestling fan, I've never seen anyone, male or female, that improved so much in the ring as Trish Stratus. She was one of the first women in the pro wrestling business to be successful at proving that you can be sexy and still be taken seriously as a performer in the ring. Who knows Trish will ever return to the wonderful world of pro wrestling, but it's a sure bet she would be welcomed back with open arms.
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